Christian Fantasy: From 1200 to the PresentThis is the first account of invented stories involving the Christian supernatural. In their development a central concern is found to be the fantasy-making human imagination itself, at first seen as a obstacle to Christian purpose, but more recently given freer rein. |
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... in an open space , appears a Pageant of the Sacrament , with Beatrice in the midst of it , on a triumph - car drawn by a gryphon . It is , at this level , an exciting narrative moment , with images which fire our imaginations .
... in an open space , appears a Pageant of the Sacrament , with Beatrice in the midst of it , on a triumph - car drawn by a gryphon . It is , at this level , an exciting narrative moment , with images which fire our imaginations .
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... a nether sky appear'd beneath us , & we held by the roots of trees and hung over this immensity ... ... I remain'd with him , sitting in the twisted root of an oak ; he was suspended in a fungus , which hung with the head downward ...
... a nether sky appear'd beneath us , & we held by the roots of trees and hung over this immensity ... ... I remain'd with him , sitting in the twisted root of an oak ; he was suspended in a fungus , which hung with the head downward ...
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In The Princess and Curdie ( 1883 ) there is a mystic old lady who in the mines beneath her castle appears to the hero Curdie as a beautiful woman ; and she tells him that her aspect to him is quite different from the one that an evil ...
In The Princess and Curdie ( 1883 ) there is a mystic old lady who in the mines beneath her castle appears to the hero Curdie as a beautiful woman ; and she tells him that her aspect to him is quite different from the one that an evil ...
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The French Queste del Saint Graal 122 | 12 |
The Commedia | 21 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Christian Fantasy: From 1200 to the Present |
| Author | Colin Nicholas Manlove |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1992 |
| ISBN | 0333558901, 9780333558904 |
| Length | 356 pages |
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